The only formatting requirement for the stack property is that if it is present, it must be a string.
—Oliver
On Nov 12, 2013, at 9:23 AM, Erik Arvidsson <erik.arvidsson at gmail.com> wrote:
> When I started investigating this I had the hope that stack could be standardized. However, the format of the string is cannot be changed without breaking the web so the way forward is to introduce a new property name. But since we are introducing a new property name we should return structured data instead of a plain old string.
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> I haven't had the time to work on this since my initial analysis of the state of the stack property.
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> On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 7:51 PM, John Barton <johnjbarton at google.com> wrote:
> Note that in Chrome the devtools are remote and error.stack is a getter which issues a remote method call to the backend. Only when the stack property is accessed will the internal representation be converted to a string. Anything else is too expensive.
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> A plain JS object format would be much more useful for development tools developers.
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domenic at domenicdenicola.com (2013-11-13T17:21:23.332Z)
The only formatting requirement for the stack property is that if it is present, it must be a string.
